How to Empower Adolescent Girls in the Context of COVID-19

  • A Advocacy Campaign/Project

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Key Information

The Violence Against Women and Girls helpdesk at Social Development Direct have developed an Adolescent Girl Resource Pack for FCDO staff working on policy and programming around adolescent girls’ empowerment. It builds on global and UK commitments to empower adolescent girls in the Strategic Vision for Gender Equality, Economic Development Strategy, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The pack includes an overarching summary brief and four stand-alone briefs addressing specific areas for empowering adolescent girls including; girls’ groups / safe spaces; humanitarian and conflict contexts; climate change; and monitoring, evaluation and learning. Whilst these briefs have been developed to highlight good practice and will be relevant beyond the current global crisis, they also include adaptations that can and should be made to policy and programming during the pandemic.

Lead Implementing Organization(s)

Location(s)

Global

Activity URL

https://www.sddirect.org.uk/media/2043/covid-19-blog-adolescent-girls.pdf

Government Affiliation

Non-governmental program

Years

2020 - 2020

Partner(s)

Not applicable or unknown

Ministry Affiliation

Unknown

Funder(s)

Not applicable or unknown

COVID-19 Response

New for COVID-19

Geographic Scope

Global / regional

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Quality

  • School quality

Cross-cutting areas

  • Climate change
  • Community sensitization
  • COVID-19 Response
  • Empowerment
  • Mentorship

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls (both in school and out of school), Youth

Age

5 - 18

School Enrolment Status

Some in school

School Level

  • Lower primary
  • Upper primary
  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

Not applicable or unknown

Participants include

Not applicable or unknown

Program Approaches Back to Top

Community engagement/advocacy/sensitization

  • Community-based monitoring (e.g. school report cards)
  • Community mobilization
  • General awareness-raising/community engagement

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Peer mentors

Other

  • Informational interventions (e.g. returns to education)

Policy/legal environment

  • Advocating changes to existing laws/policies
  • Developing/promoting new laws/policies
  • Raising awareness about existing laws/policies

School-related gender-based violence

  • Support in and around schools (e.g. peer counseling, adult-to-student counseling)

Social/gender norms change

  • Engaging parents/caregivers of students or school-age children/adolescents

Women's empowerment programs

  • Advocacy/action
  • Self-help groups (non-financial)

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Increased school enrolment (general)

Cross-cutting goals

  • Improved critical consciousness
  • Improved mental health
  • Increased advocacy/civic engagement
  • Increased agency and empowerment